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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ps3taker:
It would be great if someone could mod the camera app to use power button as shutter button similar to how right shoulder button was used in the xperia play mod app allowing you to hold it to focus and release it to take a picture.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maverick1103:
Already been talked about here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2141755&highlight=dedicated you will need root access but it can be done :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ps3taker:
Thanks - the other posts were slightly broader discussing lack of dedicated camera button, etc - I can live without a hardware button to launch camera up and very happy how zooming works with the volume rocker and would not want to lose that.

Also old camera mod app for xperia Play did not require root but xperia play mod used R trigger not power button so maybe you are right about root access.

I know power button can be used for ending calls in other xperia phones if enabled in accessibility menu - I wonder if the camera shutter option can be added in the similar fashion as an alternative to modding the stock camera app.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maverick1103:
I hope so, I was a bit miffed when I found out their wasn't a camera button but it was the speaker....as this will be my first Sony device and most of their devices have had dedicated buttons....but I'm sure someone in XDA will bring out a mod :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonmorris:
It should be a camera setting. Yes you'd lose digital zoom but that's fine for me as I'd never use digital zoom anyway.

The positioning of the volume keys would make it ideal and vastly improve the camera thanks to the shortsighted decision not to add a camera button (and thus lose the quick launch feature, which isn't possible to replicate just by having a camera icon on the lock screen).
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wonneil:
When I went to take a picture yesterday I assumed that the button was to take a picture, was very disappointed when the screen just went black lol

Looks like this is going to be yet another phone that I am never going to take pictures with, I hate having to find the correct place on the screen to take a picture, once it has finally auto focused properly.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlatnyc:
Or you can download and use CameraZoom FX.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AidanBell:
Can anyone help with an infuriating text problem? When I start to type in any notepad app, although the cursor moves (sometimes to the right, often down a line or two or three first and then to the right) no text appears on screen. However, when I then exit the keyboard, the text miraculously appears. This only happens in notepad apps. My notepad of choice is "Note Everything", but I've now duplicated the problem in two other notepad apps. Im using Galaxy Note. Can anyone please offer any suggestions as to what might be going on here? Many thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack Jake:
first try a soft reset (rebooting your phone)

then if that doesn't work backup using titanium backup and do a hard reset (wipe data)

have you tried using your hands instead of the stylus?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AidanBell:
Many thanks.

Soft reset: Check.

Hard reset: That's drastic, especially as I only recentlty went though one. Hard resetting is never as straightforward as it's made out to be, I really would prefer to try other fixes first.

Stylus: I never use the stylus. Ever!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack Jake:
did the soft reset work?

if not you will have to do the hard reset. don't worry you can backup with titanium backup

after you backup with titanium just go to recovery and wipe data/ factory reset, then reboot, install titanium backup and restore all your apps.s easy as that
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AidanBell:
Soft reset has not worked, no.

And with all respect, I don't believe that a hard reset is the only remaining option. There's ab bug at work here and what I want to do is to track down and eliminate it. If I did a complete clone backup/restore that would just restore the bug as well, so an incremental restore would be necessary, and Tuitanium can't restore all the desktop widgets that are not able to be backed up, nor settings in various other programmes such as "Ringo Pro". There's still a lot of manual fiddling to be done following a hard reset. I'll hang on for a bit longer first for an alternative solution.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AidanBell:
I sussed it! The notepad file was too long. Cutting down the length of the file completely solved the issue. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rvicencio123:
Hey guys I'm kind of new to the rom world and let me say i LOVE IT. So much stuff you can do with the android. I'm on a i747 galaxy s3 and I've just downloaded the Pacman rom.I've downloaded other roms so i know i flashed this one correctly. I even re flashed it again last night. Both yesterday and tonight my battery went to 100%-%50 in one hour. After i charged it up it would decline 20 percent in one hour. I look at the time screen time on and to see if anything is waking up my phone excessively. And all sings say to no. Any tips? I feel like I'm back in pre ics days haha.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RPelham:
when you flash a new ROM it is recommended to wipe Cache, Dalvik, Factory Reset and System. If you've done that you should be okay with the installation portion.

Have you modified the kernel at all, have you over clocked anything?

Go to the play store and download BetterBatteryStats. This will help you determine the cause.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rvicencio123:
Yeah i have. When i installed i did the whole wipe thing. And I'm useing gsm batter monitor. All the readings are normal which is the weird part to me. And no i haven't over clocked (No need to imo) and haven't modified the kernel. I know that on previous androids you would have to do a wipe batter stats. I actually tried looking for that in CMW but i wasn't able to find it. Would you have to wipe the battery stats using "batter calibration" or wiping it manually in CMW? Or is that even necessary for galaxy s3s?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] WattB006:
I would also recommend using Better Battery Stats as it is the best one I think. I always use the battery calibration app after I flash a new ROM. It usually takes a couple days or so anyways to have the new ROM settle in and everything. After a couple days you should see your battery life where it should be and not draining so fast depending on what your settings are.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CrackerTeg:
Battery calibration is a myth and has been confirmed by Google themselves. Its all over the forum and wholly unnecessary. Those apps are useless. The only way to truly let your battery stats "calibrate" is to let the ROM and kernel settle into the phone after a few charge cycles.

Here's the Google+ discussion by one of Google's people: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT

If you want to keep "calibrating" your battery for the warm and fuzzies, its your time and device.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rvicencio123:
Wow thats interesting. Everywhere i go people say that battery calibration is a necessary part when switching roms. Just out of curiosity what do you do for better battery life ? Basically what you use and not use settings wise.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CrackerTeg:
Everyone's battery life varies. Honestly, it doesn't matter the ROM. The kernel does play a part in it but its how YOU use the phone, display brightness, sync, etc. Way too many factors.

As for me, I get about the same life on most ROM's I use after letting the phone settle for a few days. The only constant I have is the kernel I use which is in my signature. Lately, I've settled on one ROM as the dev is on top of his game with this device. That ROM is also in my sig.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spewed:
Pretty sure I bricked my phone. I tried to do a factory data reset, and it never would boot back up. I then tried flashing the mini note 2 rom, and hellraising it for compatibility with sirya kernel, still no luck. However when I boot into recovery I do have the sirya recovery version. So I don't think this is something I'm stuck with.

When I get home from school, I am going to try and use Odin and flash a stock rom, is this the correct option I should move forward with?

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dsmboost:
All you need to do is boot into cwm and flash another rom or a backup.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spewed:
Thanks will do that when I get home.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spewed:
Once again, flashed a new rom, this time I flashed SHOSTOCK. Still stuck at Samsung Galaxy SII boot screen.

Again, I want to state that it got in this shape because I went into recovery and tried wipe data/factory reset. Who knew it would cause such a problem doing this.

I'm still able to boot into recovery, and once again, it flashes the recovery version that comes with the rom I flashed, in this case the SHOstock rom.

Going to try and use Odin now. Will come back if it does not work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
factory reset in recovery is the way that you install a new rom....that in itself doesnt cause issues
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spewed:
Like I said, it got stuck at Formatting/Data", then again at the Samsung Galaxy SII screen and just never recovered. I must be dealing with some super strange issue then. I've never had this happen, with the 10 phones I've rooted, unlocked and put roms on. This is kind of ridiculous. I wonder if this could be in someway hardware related? It took a pretty good fall before I attempted any of this and the screen cracked. I decided then I would use this particular phone for romming, etc before replacing it with a new s2, I guess I wont be putting a rom on the new s2 that I get either.

Any ideas?

After, doing the Odin install, It claims on Odin it passed, it gets in the recovery portion where it copies the kernel and updates the packaged, and I ge t"Multi-csc applied failed. E: Failed to mount / cache "invalid argument", along with numerous other errors along the same lines.

Edit:, after the Odin install, everytime I reboot it goes back to "Deleting cryption meta Data" #manual mode#. Not sure what to think of this. Everything I try fails.

Even when this process finishes, and gives me the option of rebooting the phone now, it goes right back to this same screen. I am officially stumped. From there I try to do the Factory reset, once again gets stuck at Formatting /data
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
What was your phone running when you performed the wipe data/factory reset that caused the initial problem? Was it stock 4.0.3 by any chance?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] billyjed:
Sounds like the emmc cap erase brick bug.

Sent from my Apple IIe
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spewed:
It was on stock 4.0.4, I believe.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spewed:
Any ideas how to fix that?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Red_81:
If it is the emmc bug..... New phone

Since you can flash in Odin and get to recovery it should not be that.

How about going to the Siyah kernel and wiping inside of that. Mr. Cook has a cwm package you can flash to wipe everything at once.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
No. If it is actually memory damage, you'd need to replace the memory, which means replacing the main board. But I'm not convinced that is what you have.

My first thought was eMMC memory damage due to the 4.0.3 kernel. It may be that the eMMC brick bug was still present in the 4.0.4 kernel as well. If so, memory damage *could* be the problem, but it's not conclusive by any measure. There were actually very few confirmed reports of memory damage, although many people used the 4.0.3 and more recently 4.0.4 kernel as their daily driver. But performing a wipe data/factory reset was one of the actions that might have caused memory damage if it was going to happen.

Since you now have the "deleting cryption meta data" error message, I'm not sure the problem is memory damage, and I would not suggest giving up just yet. Look at this thread, specifically post #2 and post #4. Follow those instructions, and see if that gets your phone going again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Spewed:
Thanks, going to give this a try. I did something similar to this with the Odin 1 click installer, but this has a few additional steps, I'll try this when I get the chance and let you guys know what happens. Directions seem a little strange, but I'm going to try and figure it out when my wife gets home and can take over child watching duties for me.

Thanks again, hope this work.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] bluechip850:
Hello everyone,

recently i am having this issue with the keypad, while i am texting, sometimes letter 'a' or the 'backspace'

or the numeric keys toggle button just dont respond, i have to repeatedly tap it to get active..

but when i change the keypad to Xperia Japenese (with eng buttons) it seems more OK..

Please help me, with this issue as this was not there before, and its just anoying me.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Not a n00b!!:
Though nt a permanent solution bt I faced the very same on Xperia premium v4 (custom Rom)

So flashed the stock ftf n everything ws wrking fine!!

U cn use swift keyboard!!

Or other keypads if prob persists!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] bluechip850:
oki, now i repaired with SUS, but now its somewhat ok, still the 'a' key and backspace have little trouble, i'll try swift keyboard though and see, thanks for the advice..
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] bluechip850:
is there any way to calibrate my lcd screen
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] bluechip850:
here's my problem, please help me..
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] POSitality:
Hi guys, hope you can help with an odd problem...

Very, very occasionally (maybe 1 in 50 calls) I get an issue where I can't hear the other party, as if the earpiece was dead. If I drop the call and re-dial, 99% of the time everything is fine. (I think I had one time in 6 months where the 2nd call did the same.)

Now, I can't decide if this is a network issue (Vodafone) or a phone issue. I mostly use a Bluetooth headset due to the size of the Note but I doubt it's headset related as I have tried two different high end brands and it happens with either.

Things I have noticed:

Problem applies to incoming AND outgoing calls

I have checked I haven't accidently muted the call

My Bluetooth headsets all chime at the start of a call but there is no call audio

The other party can hear me but I can't hear them

System sounds are all fine, only call audio is affected

Switching between headset, phone and speaker phone make no difference

Applies to all incoming call audio, including ringing tones and busy tones

I reboot my phone sometimes but as the issue is rare I couldn't say if it makes a difference. Also this is a standard Note II (not a branded Vodafone one) with all the latest patches downloaded. Looking through my app downloads I can't see any obvious ones that might affect the phone. Apart from the stock Samsung apps I most connect to CCTV systems. I have CSipSimple but I haven't used it in ages.

Any suggestions on how to investigate this further?

Regards,

Andy
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] POSitality:
Seriously... no ideas?

So, no one's ever had this problem and no one has any ideas?!

:crying:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wakoko79:
Since n4 has quad cores, I assumed it will be buttery smooth everywhere.

I am using cm10.1 now and pansi[touted as the faster sms app] lags especially on animations when swiping left or right.

Is it not optimized or am I missing something? I just don't get why it lags on this high end phone. quad core + adreno320 and it still lags on simple cube out animation on pansi? come on. Anybody tried this on stock rom?

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] phillybits:
(I'm currently on the 2/19 Nightly)

I posted this in General a couple times but don't think I ever saw an answer. Is lockscreen rotation currently MIA? Ever since 4.2, I don't have it. If so, is this a known issue? I could not find mention of it on the CM bug tracker. Additionally, if there are those of you that have lock screen rotation, please let me know as then I know it's me, not everybody.

Secondly, I had read about this before but I don't know what the proper search terms would be. As I understand it, w/ multi-user support, multiple SD folders (?? I think; SD/0, SD/1, etc) are created but multi-user support is not/will not be available for phones, just tablets. I thought I had read somewhere that this cause confusion for some users.

I've lately had some folders disappear, as well as had errors installing apps due to "storage space insufficient" warnings. I've got a 16G SD card installed and not really a lot of stuff on it so space shouldn't be an issue. What I've found is folders that I should have that contain pictures, as created when installing an app instead of user created, are not available, say, thru Gallery.

All that said, I'm not sure if the process of creating all the folders was something that could be "fixed" or remedied and so what I'm asking for is either a link to discussion on this topic, or if you're feeling less generous than that, just the proper search terms and I'll scour the web and XDA.

I just don't know how this is generally referred to and not knowing the correct search terms makes finding the relevant information more difficult.

Thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ashishgamer:
ok so my friend has got galaxy sl but is a complete noob on android development. he wants to install jellybean on his phone and I don't know which is the most stable rom. he is currently on stock GB so guys plz recommend one.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] BachuArg:
Hi,

You shouldn´t post this kind of things in the Developers Section. This is a place for developers to post their work.

There´s a General Section to post this kind of threads. Also, before posting, search within the thread, because usually someone asked the same you are looking for, as in this case.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1710595

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2134638

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1786911
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ashishgamer:
Sorry I m a bit new here :p
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] Jonny:
Thread closed as its a Best ROM thread.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] thebobmannh:
Hey All,

I've been playing around with boot animations the past day or two, just for fun. Going through all the ones in this thread I found an issue where, even without changing them at all, I was getting the first part of the animation and then a white screen.

After a lot of research and experimentation, I figured out that each folder of the boot animation had to be under 500k. If I modified any of the previously non-working animations to fit this constraint, they worked.

I realize it's a long shot, but has anyone else played with this / hit this limitation? Is there any way around it (since it makes it particularly difficult to use any animation that loops)? Or is it something specific to my phone or the way I'm doing things? (tried using Venom Tweaks to install or manually copying the relevant .zip to /system/customize/resource)

ViperXL 3.2.3, Elemental 4.5, HBOOT 1.09, S-OFF if any of that is relevant.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] iElvis:
Yeah, I got that too. What exactly did you do to fix it? Just delete files until the folder was under 500k? Or create more folders?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] thebobmannh:
Create more folders, which ... a) was a pain in the ass and b) doesn't really work, since the only way to "loop" that is to run it twice manually.

The Viper animation is pretty long, i"m going to dig into the zip and see how that one is arranged.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] iElvis:
The stockinverted animations work just fine for me, but the others I tried all did that loop/white flash thing. I noticed that the settings in the desc.txt file were different, but when I tried to copy them from the one that worked, the other animation didn't work at all. I suspect it's something in there, though.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] thebobmannh:
The desc.txt file is finicky but the Viper stock one doesn't look any different from the ones I've tried, and his .png images are huge.... very weird.

Glad I'm not the only one with an issue, I guess :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] trungbeo:
I have the same issue.

Flash one boot anim, it works for a fews sce then screen goes blank, works again a few sec, then screen goes blank again. But the phone does boot normally.

On Viper 3.2.3
[LG Optimus 4X HD] tobixdev:
Hy Community.

I hope this is the right forum for this thread.

I wanted to install a costum bootanimation today, but I didnt found anything goog in our resolution.

So I decided to make this thread.

Just upload your animations here:laugh:.

I Optimized one for our phone its attached to the post.

If you have a request to optimize a bootanimation for our phone send me a PN with the link to the bootanimation.zip or the thread it is in.

Requirements:Rooted phone(how to:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1818502)

How to:

1. Copy bootanimation.zip to your sd card.

2. Open a file explorer with root (read and write) permissions

3. Copy bootanimation.zip to system/media

4. Have Fun!

You do this at your own risk, but as I think the worse thing that could happen is that your get a blackscreen until you see the homescreen(correct me if I'm wrong)

Sorry if I did any language mistakes. I'm not a native English speaker.

[EDIT] Thumbnail only shows 1st picture didnt know that sorry. Here is a link: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/446/pdice3.gif[/EDIT]

How to optimize bootanimation for your own usage:

1.Get the bootanimation zip file from the animation you want to optimize and extract it.

2.Download http://www.chip.de/downloads/Picture-Converter_16499323.html ( Its German. But you actually dont need the Englisch one its just pressing some buttons)

3.Open PictureConverter.exe

description of the picture:

1....Browse the files you want here

2....select the output format i took .jpg and 100% (I dont know if it works with other formats too but I think so)

3....Adjust Resolution to 720x1280

4....output directory

4.Convert the picture to 720x1280

5.delete/move the original pictures and move the ones from the dir "konvertiert" into the part directory.

6.open desc.txt

in this file there will be something like this (Brackets are comments)

720(width) 1280(height) 20(i think this is the time in ms between the pics but I'm not sure)

p(no idea whats that just let it at p) 1(1..play 1 time 0..repeats the pics) 0(no idea what that means) part0(name of the folder)

7.zip it. Set compression to storage and install it. Thats all.

Please Upload the animations you optimized so everyone can get a piece of the cake :)

So I tried my best to make a lettering for our device. But the problem is I'm a total noob at cinema 4D.

It would be great if someone could make a better one :).

But as for now I will upload mine so you will be able to see which great device you're booting at the time :P

btw :you have to rename bootanimationlettering to bootanimation before you copy it to system/media but I think everyone knows that here.

some sites where you can find bootanimations:

Some of the bootanimations there are in 720x1280 just open desc.txt to look it up

http://androidbootanimation.com/

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12938-boot-animations-for-galaxy-nexus-updated-122512/

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1642888&highlight=bootanimation